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Gavrillo Princip's FN M1910, used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo Pistol of Hannie Schaft, FN M1922. An FN M1910, serial number 19074, chambered in .380 ACP [8] was the handgun used by Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, the act that precipitated the First World War. [9]
Browning had previously sold the rights to his successful M1911 U.S. Army automatic pistol to Colt's Patent Firearms, and was therefore forced to design an entirely new pistol while working around the M1911 patents. Browning built two different prototypes for the project in Utah and filed the patent for this pistol in the United States on 28 ...
Browning licensed the rights to produce and sell them to Colt within the US and Canada in July 1896, but it's believed at the time Colt was mainly protecting its revolver market. [5] In 1896 [7] or 1897 [8] Browning also scaled the .38 blowback pistol down to .32 caliber to use as a pocket pistol. US patent for the Browning .32 pistol, issued ...
The 1931 Fabrique Nationale (FN) Baby Browning is a small blowback-operated semi-automatic pistol designed by Belgium-born Dieudonné Saive chambered in .25 ACP (6.35x15 mm). ). The pistol features a six-round magazine capacity and is a striker-fired, single action, blowback mech
The Swedish military designation was pistol m/07 and it was the standard sidearm until the adoption of the Lahti L-35 (pistol m/40) in 1940 when it was declared substitute standard. The pistol m/07 was taken out of storage and pressed into service in the 1980s as the bolts of the Lahti L-35 pistols started cracking due to the use of a more ...
The FN Model 1905 (from its patent date) or FN Model 1906 (in European countries due to its date of manufacture) was a pistol manufactured by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal from 1906 to 1959. [ 1 ] It is virtually identical to the Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket , which was based on the same John Browning prototype, and was the inspiration for FN's ...
U.S. patent 544,657 Colt–Browning Model 1895 machine gun; U.S. patent 549,345 Winchester 1895 lever-action rifle; U.S. patent 580,924 Colt 1900 automatic pistol; U.S. patent 632,094 Winchester 1900 bolt-action single-shot .22 rifle; U.S. patent 689,283 Browning Auto-5 shotgun, also Remington Model 11 and Savage 720
It is patterned after the Browning FN 1906 / Colt Model 1908. MAB Model A is a single action, striker-fired, semi-automatic pistol with a blowback action. Model A has a manual safety on the left side of the frame as well as a Browning-style grip safety at the rear of the frame. This feature ensures that the firing mechanism does not operate ...